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Permalink Reply by Bill on July 26, 2010 at 2:50pm

Even if you had highly accurate astronomical observations from those days which showed the planets to be off by about a day, what is more likely, that the Earth and Sun stood still for a day, or that humans added or removed a day from their calendar? The former event is physically impossible, the later has occurred many times.

Permalink Reply by Bill on July 26, 2010 at 2:46pm

If there were a "missing day" in history, there would be no evidence for it. We would never be able to tell! This is simply another case of the misinformed trying to use science to "prove" the bible.

I love this bit of misinformation: "They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it." What does that even mean?

Permalink Reply by Adrian on July 27, 2010 at 12:13am

Dates are just human constructs, so days do not "go missing". This reminds me of the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendars, when supposedly there were riots across Europe because people thought that the authorities had stolen 12 days of their lives; in those days they believed that God had a book with the date of your death already written in it, so if the calendar jumped forward, then you were suddenly that much closer to death! Crazy!

Permalink Reply by David Thorne on April 5, 2011 at 2:57pm

In Joshua’s day it was not known that the earth was a 10-to-the-24th kilogram sphere rotating on its axis at 15 degrees per hr  (360 per 24).  If the sun appeared to stop in its path then it was the earth that suddenly stopped rotating.  One consequence of that would be that every loose object on the surface would fly off tangentially at roughly a thousand miles per hour.  However, before that occurred the loss of angular momentum would release the equivalent of millions of hydrogen bombs, vaporizing the earth’s crust, melting the mantle and fracturing the core.  Other cultures around the world, not battling some other small clan, would indeed have noticed it.  At least briefly, if not then able to record it.

Permalink Reply by Nathan Hevenstone on May 4, 2011 at 2:05am

If anyone ever sees this again, point the sender over to Snopes:

 

http://www.snopes.com/religion/lostday.asp

Permalink Reply by Jeromy Hyatt on October 12, 2011 at 6:38pm

so i only read to the part where god made the sun stand still and i know i should read the whole thing but we orbit the sun......they must have missed that part

 

Permalink Reply by Rick on October 12, 2011 at 7:01pm

And of course the scientists would immediately believe anything they found in the bible without further testing. I for one find it more unbelievable that the so-called Christian was able to remember such obscure bible stories considering most of them don’t read it to begin with. I don’t understand what all the excitement is about any way. They were too late. God already revealed himself in breakfast foods long before this event ever took place.

Permalink Reply by Alexander Miner on January 20, 2012 at 3:01am

I kept waiting for it to say, "... and then, Mandark put it on grow again! And his head was big as the wor-- it was the world."

The story is incredibly childish. NASA's last concern is proving the Bible... To the contrary, I think their main focus is figuring out how to save their agency from being shut down.